Re: Can linux kernel claim it uses GPL v2?

[John Hasler]

kero552 writes:
> My goal is to understand, why programs using kernel can be not-GPL, while
> programs using GPL library has to be GPL.

Whether or not a program can use the API of a GPL work without being GPL
itself is irrelevant to the kernel because the kernel authors have
explicitly permitted that.

The GPL is a model license, not a law.  The kernel authors have not
modified the text of the GPL, but they have provided an additional
statement.  The kernel license consists of the GPL plus that statement.
-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA